Newspapers, by Susan Lesch, via Wikimedia Commons Newpapers, as we all know, are in trouble. Their margins eroded by the Internet, incapable of putting forward a business model that can support their transformation onto the web, the current economic recession has thrown the problems of print media into sharp relief, as it has with so [...]
Archive | September, 2009
The magic of the ordinary (DNTO podcast)
Definintely Not The Opera (DNTO) is a magazine show on CBC Radio 1 that comes out every Saturday. It’s one of my most treasured Canadian cultural institutions. Originally named Brand X, it was first broadcast in 1994 and later renamed to Definitely Not The Opera to signify that it ran opposite Saturday Afternoon at the [...]
Brilliant stuff: Readability bookmarklet
Despite our best efforts in web design and HTML standards compliance, articles can be very difficult to read on today’s rammed-full websites. The New York Times and the Huffington Post are just two examples of essential content bordered and permeated by visual clutter: video advertising, animated ad banners, endless lists of links to other articles, [...]
Unplugging the system (HealthCamp Toronto)
It’s taken me more than a week to get around to synthesizing my impressions of the inaugural HealthCamp Toronto, which was held on September 15, 2009. HealthCamp is a participatory, roaming unconference. An unconference is a self-organizing community event, a workshop whose content is entirely generated by the participants. Originating in the tech industry as [...]
The Art of Community – free ebook download
Jono Bacon is the community manager for Ubuntu, the open source Linux operating system that’s finally starting to give Windows a run for its money when it comes to consumer-readiness. He’s recently published what appears to be an interesting, practical guidebook for building and managing communities. There are chapters on planning, building, measuring and governing [...]
Thoughts about the Microsoft Courier
How about this thing? Courier is the project name for a future tablet-style device from Microsoft. The story was broken a few days ago by Gizmodo, one of the gadget blogs. Courier is not quite a tablet: it’s two tablets on a hinge that fold closed like a paper notebook or agenda. Here’s a concept [...]
Out with the old, in with the new…
[Editor's note: This post refers to an older blog of mine that's since been shut down. It's here mostly for historical interest. My misgivings about "business blogging" in the service of my profession remain unchanged...] As many of you know, I work for a Microsoft partner – we provide consulting services and create software solutions, [...]
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